Learn English - 6 fun idioms about DREAMS

Hi, my name is Rebecca from www.engvid.com. In today's lesson, we're going to learn six

idioms that have to do with dreams. All right?

Now, what is an idiom? You probably know, but just to review. An idiom is a combination

of words that together means something different than the words mean individually. All right?

So let's understand what these idioms are. You need to be able to understand idioms because

people use them quite often in conversation and also in writing. But remember, the rule

about idioms is: don't actually use it unless you're really sure how to use it because otherwise

it sounds a bit silly. But, it's still important to know them and to understand them, and maybe

at some point, to get to the stage where you can actually use them in your own conversation

which I hope you'll be able to do soon.

Let's get started. First one: "It was a dream come true."

Now, what I've done in all of these is to use them in a sample sentence, a sample sentence

which doesn't necessarily give away the answer, but let's see if you can figure it out. What

is "a dream come true"? "A dream come true" is when something is so perfect, so beautiful,

so amazing, we say: "Oh, it was a dream come true." For example: -"How was your vacation?"

-"Wow, amazing. It was a dream come true. I loved it." Okay? So it's like a good dream

that actually happens. But we can't analyze it that way, you just need to understand that

the expression: "A dream come true" means that something was amazing.

Next: "I wouldn't dream of it."

What does that mean? "I wouldn't dream of it." Well, this means that something is so

silly or improper that I would never do that. So, "I wouldn't dream of it" means I would

never do that, I would never do such a thing. Okay? For example: if somebody says: -"Oh,

are you going to always be my friend or are you going to stop being my friend when I'm

not so rich?" - "Oh no, I will always be your friend. I wouldn't dream of not being your

friend. I really care about you." Something like that. Okay?

Next one: "It was like a dream."

Again, this is a complimentary positive kind of idiom. -"How was your vacation?" -"It was

like a dream." Okay? Which means: perfect, wonderful, great. Usually, dreams symbolize

something strong and positive when they're in idioms. We do have another idiom: "It was

like a nightmare." A nightmare, of course, is a very bad dream. So that's when everything

goes wrong, you can say: "My holiday was like a nightmare." That's different. But now, this

was a good holiday, so we say: "It was like a dream."

Next is an expression which is a little bit sarcastic. Sometimes someone says to somebody:

"In your dreams!" When does that happen? Or:

"Dream on!" Let's say that two friends... Two good friends

are driving through a very expensive neighbourhood and they're looking at these amazing mansions

and huge houses that are on both sides. And one of them says: "Wow, I'd like to have a

mansion like that. I'd like to be living in a house like that." And the other friend says

to him: "Dream on!" Or: "In your dreams!" Which means: "Yeah, really. It's just a fantasy.

I don't think it's really going to happen." Okay, he's not being mean; he's just being

a little bit sarcastic. And that's how we use something like that. Or if someone says:

"Oh, what an amazing actor he is. I wish I could date him." So the other girl says: "Oh,

yeah. In your dreams! Really." Okay? That's an example of how we use something like that.

A little bit we're joking with people; we're not trying to be mean.

Okay, next: "It was beyond my wildest dreams."

Again, this is like: "It was like a dream", but this is even more so, it was more than.

"Beyond" means more than my wildest dreams, my most crazy dreams, my most imaginative

dreams. "It was beyond my wildest dreams." What could be beyond your wildest dreams?

I don't know, anything. Your wedding day. Maybe you had always dreamt of something beautiful

and your wedding day was actually even more amazing than that. So you could say: "It was

beyond my wildest dreams." All right?

And the last one is... I've left a blank here and you'll see why:

"It's a dream __________." Something. So that, you could say, for example:

"It's a dream car.", "It's a dream computer.", "It's a dream house." Right? "It's a dream

vacation." So here, you put in whatever it is you're talking about. And what it means,

if you said: "It's a dream computer." Means it's an amazing computer, it's a fantastic

computer. You love it, you think it's great. So then you say: "It's a dream __________."

Something, directly. Without saying: "It's like a dream", you just say: "It's a dream

computer.", "It's a dream holiday." Or: "It's a dream job." Right?

All right, so here are some idioms about dreams. Let's see if you remember them. Very quickly,

let's review.

"I wouldn't dream of it." Means? What? I would never do that.

How do you say: "Oh, really. You know, maybe in your fantasy, but I don't think it's actually

going to happen"? How do you say that? "In your dreams!" Or: "Dream on!" Not both. Okay?

One of them.

If I say: "It's a dream hotel." What does that mean? Well, it was an amazing hotel.

Right?

If you want to say that something was really amazingly, wonderful, you could say: "It was

a dream come true."

And another way to say that: "It was like a dream." A little bit less enthusiastic,

but still very nice.

And: "It was beyond my wildest dreams." Means amazingly fantastic.

All right? So a lot of them, as you can see, are really positive; just depends on degree,

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